India, Aug. 2 -- Days after ending a 23-day hunger strike, All India Students' Association (AISA) president Neha Bora says her body is still "not used to food" as she relearns how to eat, but her frail condition has not stopped her from travelling across states to push for the release of protesters detained during the Jantar Mantar agitation.

Bora, a JNU PhD scholar from Uttarakhand, was among a small group of activists who staged a prolonged hunger strike over the NEET paper leak controversy, demanding then-education minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation.

"My body adapted to surviving without food during the hunger strike. Now it has to adapt again to eating," Bora told PTI in an interview. "My digestive tract is still not used to ...